Love and Faithfulness

Good Morning,

Proverbs 3:3-4 (NIV)
Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.

"The Wisdom of Solomon." We've heard that saying over and over for all our lives. It's something that's said by many people, not just us "church goers". Now, those of us who believe in God and know that the Bible is His instruction book, His basic book of what to do...and NOT to do, we know that it was God who gave Solomon the wisdom that we find, especially in Proverbs.

Love and faithfulness. Toward God and toward our fellow man. Should we embrace those and live them out, then, we will have what we call "character" that will be seen and known, as we read, by both God and people.

God advises us that we should hold to love and faithfulness and never let them leave us. That we should "bind them around" our necks and "write them on the tablets" of our hearts. I would imagine that all of us who read these words would know and understand that already. But, I would also guess that we need to be reminded of this from time to time. There are times when things are difficult for us in some way that we might forget about the love and faithfulness that we have had in our lives, both given by us and also that we've received.

So, at the risk of being too brief, let's just read these verses and allow them to speak into our minds and hearts and our very being.

Love and faithfulness. A life lived with this truly etched on our hearts will be a life well worth living.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David